Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1877. Ahls age about thelr belng in God’s hands. When We strike these great disasters It fs blauk Ulasphemy to turn on heaven awl tey to make out even i decent plea for oarselves at the cost of the cternal truth and fife. We are not elil- dren groping our way to cortanties about auch matiers, but men sho aforld know what we are about, The pagans thought the father of that Tfsehifefon Tan was Merowry, the god of lies. They struck the truth in their nimbie braln when they got it futy this_shape, for when you reach back to the beginning of these ischicrs yout flnd_they start with, nml are started by, a He. That canvas-cosering that sent the firo leaplig on thuse hapless creatures In Brooklyn, and browght the panic which ended {n such dreadful death was a lle. That bridee was a lie av Ashtitbula. trom_the Allegheny Valtey, and had-to wait near it for a train when I away Just now, and remember how [ sald to myeelf, ** You seem hut a slender plece of work for what you have 1o bear, but [ suppose the man who built you knew what he was about, or you woull not be tieres ¥ and when Topendd mr paper one morning within a few daye and saw the great horror, 1 remembered my surmise and half- formed fear. Ido not knew who ballt it, or what chance he had to huilid one twvice as strong, ar to see to this he had hullt, so that there should be no erystaifzation that would make it suap like a pipe-stem. T only know that SERMONS. “Robert Collyer on the Subject of Special Providences. “A View of the Caso Which Does Not Agree with Some Hereto- : fore Given. Prof. Swing Discusses Llto Ques- .. Hon of “Opinion and Religion.” 1 came up . Memorial Services Ozer P, P, Dliss_nt the Firat Qongregational Churoh, Ihe Rev. E. Powell Mas Mis Anoual Mome Talk . with His Teople. SPECIAT, PROVIDENCES, f we ever geb in the bottom fact, this SERMON BT TUE REV, RONEAT COLLYER. will be the facl: the bridge had no- great The Rev. Robiert Coliyer preached yesterday solll teuth ot the heart of it to begin with, no great sold truth to which men can trust thetr Hves aud the Jives of thelr wives and ehillren, und the Jonger it stood the more hol- Tow amd empty grew the pretense until the Judgment camney and it went down like n house of carids. A that §a the story of the vast mafority of these dlsasters. The demon that epringa the terror on ua Jurks fo a man or a company of men, and the father of it §8 allke, Yet kike'the clrcles in n lake it may begin at some given cen- Are, but it _reaches all the shores before ftis through, The pain and horror of these disas- ters smite us atl. the blime_also was not In some way as wide- spreml, We are a hecdless race, with no great convietion a8 yet ahout the sacreduces of_ dotag things just na wellns wo can, and_ thess men who ilo things so that they let us down to doath are Insome sense our own children, 1nsome countries Tcoulil name they nro wise hefore siteh events, aml 2o they never happen, We ata not even wise after them, aind so they happen nizain and still agam, until if we were dlamayed tor long tazether at anything, wo shonld nirree that safety should be compassed in these things, or we worhd not haya them. But it 13 us if God satd to ug, * Why will ve Ale,” and we answered, ** W arg toa busy and heedless to do nnything else.”” Whon the day somes, which muxt aad will catma, W which we And thero s Just enough of mystery [n the | shall count 11fo of more wortn than dividends, way these dicnsters strike ns to selze on what t5 | nnd gottime through safely than getting™ on wotst o wenkest 1 our common tmauhood il | sWTL, atud keep an sccount stern as " fate iwith Jend us Into kome deeper trouble if we do | those who bring on thess hurrors by their worth- nut take care ant thelr fnal cauee. | less work or vam pretenses, then you will see We nre Lt by 1! he Amerlean vitizen trasel as sately, or sit a3 and stunned by the thunder of the calamity safely In geeat, public halls, os the dttzen of any that we can nelther sve nor hear the great | other country, Aud when, after all theso ter- “lesson God would teach us In this palnful way, | Fora are sprung on us that como with dis- since every other way Ho would teach ua his | aster, there ks any ehanee at all of making the mfled. 86 I potiee, To ot of he strokes we | best of it instead” of the worse, we slatl ‘inake liavu just taken, how there are men quite ready | the best through & anhuod traned to stand to provo that tho widespread rain and despair | Grm, and do its duty Dn the criels, with, at the was a judgiment of God on the wlekedness of | least, the fnatinet of tue wild things on the bing to o theatre, aul o bring you all the | phiins that tey to move onand fight thele way eripture_ you can tiewd to back up their con | through the” danger with tho weak and the cluslon, 1t you will only allow the Scrivture, | young in the cen I remember & church in Otliera ngatii, no doubt, are tempted to think of | the war-time which was crowded with people snchmumroj.hu“s the resulvof a forcordbi- | When there was an alurm rajsed, and the panle morning at Unity Church taking as his text: Why witl yo diat—Azetial, xerdl, 11. Following fs the sermon : 1 notice that great disasters follow some ench law o3 great storms. There Is a space of r and peace between them, and then when they atrike us, aml we think we have felt the worst, At I8 anly liko the Jull in the tornado, and there 1a another dire misfoctune at hand, They cotme Mke chalighot with a double stroke, held fo- Rether, a8 oue might belteve, by an fron fate, This1s the truth i o crude way about plagues, .and fires, and wrecks on the sea and on the land. I have noticed more than once that swhen one great steamer I8 loat another follows pres- cntly fu her wako to the same sad end. 30 Chi- vago lsdesolated by fire, and then Boston. And now while our hearts were heavy over the doom that fell on fo many I Brooklyn, we bad to turnand witness anuther more terrible, if pos- slble, at Ashtabula: to read the story witha - fecling akln to despalr, 08 we saw so tnany - snan beings hurled down to death Instantly, ns wa have to hope {n merey to themselves, and to wonder when there ever was so sad a sight be- fore in the hmnr}' of man. v tion from which there 3 no eseape, nostrahe of | was an them (o au fustant. The volee of the Qod to which we must bow In blank’ submieston | mintster went like o trumpet through ind cry, 4 How shall the clay reply sgalust the | the piacey Do still, tand move out puttery or say why Last thow made meor brokes me. thusd” “Theh there are thuse, 1 have no doubt, whu Iave w haunting sear that o demon {a let loose for euch evil work, and Tad his wicked will of us to this sad end, as they be- Heved n the old day Job, or a8 the Grecks belivved Lreat pgod Pan, whose sisters were tlfe Futes, und who was the faticr of thesc surprises of aiaster, and the oot of our word panfe, while outside all thece lines there are thos who look st all such things when they erow to this greatness of surrow awl jain o n sort of despair, and say € 18 e use trylog to deal with them; wo muet take the oo, leave aut of the guestion unid Hie de- twons, uid trust to our luck that we shall not e there, or those we luve, when the ship goes gmw, or the fire burns to send us quick (o death, 11 does not hielp matters agoin to my mind that those who claim to hu mott devout aro so zeady to vofer ull there calunities to what they ull Providence, and ery down those who Inslst shat auch things do not come by the providence L f Goil, but by the hinprovidence of maw, or st fu nny case uzhit Lo ged to the roots aof ety wml 1 will o the Tast. Let no man dlace to forve Wis way by brate steenstin It Wit a trafied manbood, * The salt was fu it that went through Marston Moor, and the great host was gaved=not o chill 'wos hurt or a woman. I vauld not but think of it when I saw the deso- tatlon fn Brouklyn, bow a manhood tralned to be truo and stanch might have done great thinga In that fearful erisis. I have read of a selwol within no long tine in which the ehil- ddren had to meet sueh a erisis, and the tea were so brave snd true that rohing out Jike little sold] die " Gad tu s Alus that wo have (o auswe not manbood enougl to 1 when these | eteile s nud demand the hest there s I us s the price of our ralvation.” 1t keema to e onee more that the question cotnes 1o Us is tu tien atd wonen Who i sl st find more worth in this Bite, until the teie tioe comes for them to meet the great change, t than they can find fn sny other before tha thme, ke no trouble wbout the Hic tnto which so muny bave beea hurrivl T would leave ull that to the fndnlte pity and love of Gode und feel sure He could nus Sur uwn responaibility Lefora we prestmo to | tako a mean advantage of fich o eatastrophe to sottle that of the Mast 1igh, et a huat of hutann bheingzs hinkdled into hell, One would fmasloe thiat in the nature of | any more than He conld contrive the catas- shings those who are most Jealots for the honee | trophe, and then wateh us worship Him, - All 3L the geeat King would b 1he Tust to et Bt | that. Is a3 fae usit s po~sible for the heart 1 e forth ns an orlental despot of the ancont pute | cetva from the steudy and holy spirit of 1lis sern, who an do sucl ings as these f thy | love. Leonld not be wo loxt to 1hs truth as to tuthiess fasilon with which the wheel of u loco- | suppose e would do what 1 could nover do Tative crtshes the vnsstioppers ou the plaing, | myselfoand this 1s what 1 could never do 1t vl then sk those fn what e has hiddena | tiere Is s spack of real tenderuess left In my divine reason to ery, “Tie Lord Is Just inall | natare. So, when [scg that drendful slzht st ills works, und holy th all ilis ways,” Yet, no | the theatre, or at the bridge, und then hear woner do these tromendous traubles smite us | men wake the horror stitl more awful by slio- dint you shall hear the devoutsr hieart varnishe | ping fns doubt us to whether there Wiy any . them over with poetd aentinents | ope for some puor sonls alter they had gone nd plous pealmy, secking the reason for them, | through that dark fate, my beart will only al- 1 may b, In the rome who Jave been | low e this concluslon: Tiat us these tlings Tone to death, ur dwelling on the fustant glory | stand fn thele bitter reallty, thuss pour souls nto which thuse bave been nehered who were af | could fitnl as short o way Lo the etermal rest el kindy but in uny cure leadiug us away by a | from the thestrs or the bridee us trum any ton whivh grows whler all the tiing | other spot on” the whole whle world, und while {geratny of the trouble, Such things | there munt bo s reckontng Tor thei, us there nt, no_douht, but they do not will be tor ua all, that 13 In tho hands wng to the heart of o true cel Y TRy of One whio ways wro above our ways snd-hand enthusfusm, Lot ticnan stug who ds | a8 Bl as the heavens are sbuve suenbuyg in the wreelout Ashtubula or on the italrw {n Brook euongl oy heart to weep out iy thanksgiving that sho uman xonul shoutd rlxe so granaiy over the wdidest terrors mud direst padns ot deuth, ‘That wall rlght, but it Iy not the thinge wo have to 0 when they are taken sl we are Teft. 11 we jeek the reason In Heaven, white ig Hea right aere on tho carth, und sny to the eternat God, Why do we died wiife He ls saying to us, CWhy wht ye dicl” we weave the web of fato »y throwing back the stuttle into Flis fhawd, AT this sudden fato Lad fallen on the he doubt us to the Inturo ot these izht In dt wonld hardly have 1 would na more harbor o Ithmate destiny of thosy whe But it 1 eonld ll«l! aud I haye not e boen mientlon oubt us Lo the Wurs caughiL in (e theatre, awarey s [ LUk 1o you, that every soul found the inllnite “wlory, tils woill it ty away nty nnspeakuble regret, 'l'm-{ are lost to thin” world beforo thelr thoe. Howdreds of homes will have s slidow on them many years. Chilil nro fatherleas sud aotherless,” Men vhile Ho I8 forever trylme 1o teweh ud | and women sre woeplng. The whole world we tu hald it for furtune {n one | about us i poorer wied sadder, and there is no i Suwe hosgline o myatery of Provie [ compensation which can reach the ease, [fero lence, Instead of todlng 4 fault dn | was onr followetownsiman, Mro itogers, In the o8 we can ieet and mend, To ds all of | prime of hmll(nlamul il tvue s the day, o carn to teeve ( man whu w whinped lound wrn canchde that i€ it na Gol oy i ou. | know o o niklelity su el aml hopeless ws that which e st and weop over sueh terrars, wind then leave them ail to 1 withutt ikl erly und persistontly, Jlave they come o aur human sldu! The man who will unk that question and fusfat on having wanswered hefore N whl hear w word abont subinission to the will of G, et hiw thinkceas ho will on other matlers, 18 ¥o far the religlous man, I know of no yuestion on which the devonter heart, us duvoutness goes, can get 8o futully wrong {n Its reckonlog ns on this, throusi which it slips thu fimprovidence uf man into ths pace of the provideote of God, and then fecls 48 AF t had mudo u elean strika fur the hishest and the best. Edmund Missey presched u pere- won agatost foeulation, I 182, et Bt Aw- drew’s Chureh, In Lomdon, frou the text, S Satanwent forth froin the presence of the hotd you would sot want if you Jud ird, or even hls word i you knew he had ¢y his tind, Fiiere were a mother wud sister it hig old Eastern Lomu to whom bis Prescnce I the world wos us the shudow of o gzreat ruck In o weary lund s people hera trast thelr property to i as the soul ol prudence reatlie Without fear on hls strength, Gono In the mibdst of hla daays, with the Kiss ot bls mother snd sisters fréalt on his mauth, {Gune with the world in W teart, the sweet, unwholesame world fn whivh b was so glad to live. Goue with Lhesy things all to be dune that only an honest and trasty man can o, Gione from every pluce that knew him, and was glad foe o, G — widnot a trads of him ffewdship or Kinanlp or love conld reeognize. Gong {ute Tleaven, atel wanted on the earth. 16 1i no great com- fort, | feur, tu those who wora very near hum tu think of o bn the ciernal reat, They want Tt bere, wid ought to hava lhm here, and would have hlin but for that which human fn- tegrity aml clear mantiond mfght bave pro- Lord amd smote Job with tore botle from the | vented, It §s such sad things s this that put sole of Bls oot unte bty creww? t lu .:mf.lm:h on this question. It wus counted u grand wermon by R iy will ye dief” and sturts the doyout men, und the wncusient wus [ wonder when wo shall summon the better that this new way of dealimg with tue su x tended to banlsh u sense ot the Divine 'rovidence, us well us u dependence ou L providenee out of the worlds LU seeia very joolish tu us now that o mun should talk i that way only l.';Ui'u.Au wgo fu ong ol the tirst churches of one of the firat cities by the world, Tuwiltseem still mose foollsh i the te Lo tome that we should Lo talking ubout the Die vise Providenve fn the way we o ulter these eat calumltivs, instead of luokiug into thy fivars of then nnd haring the vore of (ud se bundened with desthy Kpiint 1o do whatever can be done to put un end L0 tiese great dlaasters, That hapless laly ou my street fe desperatton for fer htile bahe, feehing for it plil? {1y her dreams—not cven o little mound ut Gracelanl or Rosclilll whers sho can plant somo fuwera When stmimcer comed, utd rain down some tears, Huw teuder earts farand wide wust aclw us ours du for that poor mother! Bhe s but ong of 5w mauy who are us Ra-hel weeplhg for ber chiliren s refitsing to be comforted because they wre uot. ‘Therd i o beib r T, and yot ft inight have been hiclped, Wo know what tire-traps eml deathetraps are, W knew befors this double struke ol death came, We have wisenen aud trus oien who would mske all these plutos wa ral6 as human wisdow can ke them. Wodo ot seek them out awd brime thew to the frout. . Wenxs vontent Lo alip be- tween these shots of Gute I we van, and call Uit trasting 1 ¢ Now, Wit fa the vemedyd This, tirat of oll: that wo shalt talk no nonsense and bellove nong 11 we can help it of WL Divine Providence with apeclal provisjuns aveut which somu of our brethren make 8o much ade, The Div Providence makes no special provisions. When the thne comes fur the bridiee to o down it Rous down, and the sweet singer who s coming Tabernucle b erushied wind cousuing ! us 1 in wild crsing, us they Wy will ge dle For this niust be clear to any man who will thiuk for b ¢ that while thers may be 8 toucn of mystery fu thess double strokes of death, that,” as cur civilizatlon grows so com- plex, there must b surprised of dieuster against which 1t s not casy Lo provide, because we have to Jearn 8o wuch by experteoce. Pliere 13 no Wy u the tuln wiieh bus fust overtaken us, and 10 surprise we cuuld bt lave inct bad wo been on our gusrd. f §s wot throush God'a providence in any wuyl we vl lmagine, but through huste und heedless- nesg—and whall not say our kreediuees for gatu, that brigges are bullt which Ko down st last like this at Asbtatuly, and tuestres that turn out te-travs ik thay in Brooklyn, We call such things dlsasbers; wo ably ua the poor rugue why Ly going to ought to call them murders. It ba the bardest | State Prison, as Feeg them wolug now and then xhfis {1y the world when wll s over ta tud out | up that roal. urm%r. aulld a3 the whols to blawme; It cught to be the easiest. | arches under the . world bear {'un over safcly, thoush an uthelst bulld thew. We go our way and forget such thivgs in a few mol&hu Wo ought to remeuber them the Tongest :-3 we bve. \Wa say by wur action beru ls 1y uo help for i, W ouglit tu say At with 8” narrow warglo for our humasa Suitatious uothing can be surer than thia: that Vbrddge cun be built which, with care in the sumstruction und walntezauee, Wil beall bub zjusd to the solid wurld tur safuty, aud public il you cun no wiore burn thau you can ‘bisn ssbéstos. 1n ong word, we have thesc .+~ $bings v vur own bauds, aud muat uob talk is Bridges with 4 (ault In thefr deslzns, or weak- uess n thele -ui‘luu frames, go down, thouzh ! thiey are vaptlecd I prayers by the Holy Samts. Charchivs buri as well ws theatres, snd 1a:tosies us well us churches, und the poor creatures dic fu the oue us n tue vtber dsmally, und without distinction of sluucr or sulot, byl fur buwan in- sizbt and houesty, and care. The one thing iod will nob du {30 drew & low of sbeclsl fuvor betwevn those who are erushed by the tower of Blloam wod thuse Who escupe, vu the grould, 1 wish T could feet sure that that thesa ate better and thoss wo we cando_good things by merely ea ,f(mxrl worde, or And rafety in falth when wa work with bad material, The true faith in God's providence 1s faith fnsolli stone aw irom, #o put togethar ns Lo e equal to every need when you want to butld a bridge, and {n things that will not wrap you in flame before you know where you are, i jrreat bulldings whiers thero (s ulways danger from fire, Then we must Tearn this lasson from such calamities: that while therecan be no such special providence wa men dream abont in Tiaven, thers can bo one o the earth. Wo can all take hold, and do our = share of this serfons and solemn work, and so win tho reward of a greater safély to human lfo through the whole community, or \ve can sl scamyp our work, and become part and parcel of aspocial improvidenes under which the people dle. Tean sny I had nothing to do with that ruin, but that does not give me clean ;m[mr:!- T can inake or el a lulr of shoes that will Lring # human belng to the grave, or tan the leather, or sell lumber that will warp and shrink, or make & bolt that will break and bring » tnan crasting_on the pavement, or do a hundred things which go to make up the tale of this specnl improvidence, Inchiding the preaching of wermons in which ['do et try to drive these harsh teths home for fear romebody will be hurt. It lightens in no way theheav, I‘u!wmem. which lies ot these vast calamities o sad that where onc dies i that way, » score ora hundred die i other ways of which wetake no note, just as eyl and hopeless fi thele own bad fashion, but that is the truth. The goml providence within the lincsof iny thousht i3 that which we compnas and create, every onc of us, thrungh & thoroughyoing futegrity and Lionesty fu what wedo, . The third lesson is that those who (nsist o teaching and tryinz to live out o falth in God which ~ recomnizes ns n flrst principle 1 own steadfast laws, and insat on it that these lawa must be recognized in our life or 1ife comes to naught, teach and live a true doctrine which will be Just a3 true In any world we ever reach as it 1s in this, and by conscquence all teachings which would tamper with the dl- vine sequences, and teacl nien su, must bo least aud last [n the' kingdom of heaven. 1 allow fn this clalm for il the hidden wonders, Lam sure there are more things in heaven and eartl than we dream of {n our phlluso‘)h{, and Lam willing that when these wonders flash out on us as the prophetie lint of o great law which will ony day be revealed and established, wo should tall thorm iniracles or auvthing we like. Allthe same, the law is steadfast, Just, and good; when we once find the key to it, the revelation of the mind of God, n whom there s no vaciablencas nor shadow of turning, and forover as wo trans- frees those Jaws, whether it be in [nnocent play, s wy pour boy did fenorantly, or through sotie sort olhollow setublance ke fliosc overwhich the Dost part of the nation has been struck by this gruat sorrosw, there tanosalvation except throngh ufforing and puriiication; tllruuxlll consing to do evil auil learniug to do well, and hearlni this volee which threadsits \\‘n{ through all our dis- asters, [ ot willing that any should per- fsh, but thotall shouid turn to Me aud live; turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye dfe{” And then thils lesson Just oCall: That woare not left to our own poor resources in this great nruffilc. bug nre forever maintained and beart- o4 or. that. ene the fnstant help of God. “Ile sends His prophets; and pricsts, and seers throueh all tho gres Lo help us iu our troudle and diamay. ‘Chey came for the inner life, and the outery for thy body and the suulj for the Iifo that now 1, and that which [s to eome, to tcach us how to do better work ns well nshow to live botter lives; to make things safer for us here, and fureyer to beal thy hurts we get In tho double battle it there be any heating that can reach us, or if wo are for this'thng beyoud nall this to llht the lamp of a sure hope of a better life and s better time. It scoms to me these hurts and flis come not so mueh by divive permlission us fu the fuce of the divine remonstrance. Let that be ns It wmay, there Js a divino splelt, an cternal love and plty, bendinz over our mistakes and slns s tho wise and goud physlclan hends over thoso through which bis paticnt has brought on sotiw sore hurt, nnd out of the huart of that love anld pity comes all our heating. It sent the Christ, und the walnty, and tho multitude no man ean number, which Nave heen saviors in their own way and their own degreo, nnd that etornal love and Dity 18 Godd, d1e sont 1is augels futo the midst of ibe fire, und conght those crushied and burn- {nez suen and women sl ehildren away Into 113 great house of morey whera they can be nursed and healed, e sends men when the woo T Talten o1 u to teach s the better way and the better hope, We nre getting, und imust get, aur edueation through these disasters, slunce we will lears fn 1o other way; must feel the pain of them anil hear the lass, aml see how the in- novent have to sulfer for the gullty, and then out of 1t allat Inst there will be n ‘new order, wForagrent voles out of Tleaven ling snhl, Nehold the tabernaele of God is with men, and He will dwell with them snd they shall by 11l veople, and God Wimsell sill ‘bo with them andd be thele ol Aud God shall wlfiu away all Yours from their eves, and there shalt by no more desth, nelther sorrow nor erying, nefther shalf there be noy more palu, for” the former things ure pagsed awuy.” OPINION ANy RELIGION. SERMON BY PIOF. BIWVING, Prof. €nlng preached yesterdsy morning ot the Central Chuech, taklog us his text: Fur whaseuver shall do tho will of My Father In Tleaven, the eame f& My brother and sister and wother,—Malt.y £l 60, Christ’a religion began s ono of character rather thau as one of opinjon. Jlo was not a dualer in fdens 50 much ua In virtve. If you will read the Immeuso volumes of the Chureh as they have been fssacd along fn the aies, ance {n manuserpt, then In type, you will find an finmense quantity of iea or thought tadecd, but you will not find that much of [t came from Hin who founded the Christfan religion, {a himaelf o tiinking creature. Not only i3 he the unly animal that eries, and the only anlmal that laughs, but, quite probubly, the unly anlinal that thinks, To think I s4 much his nature o8 it Is the nuture of the bird to tly or of tho sllk-worm to wrap itself In a bed of suft thread, Educatlon adds to the humun faculty of thought and redeubles, therclore, the egate that finds its way futo conversi- tlon, or specchies, or books, Thoughit is man's perpetual oceupations o eannot live o second without thought, and it 1s debated whether dur- {ug sleep the current of thought pauses tn s banks. Education by develuping the mental power inereasea the activity of the mimd, and - creased knowledge increases the range of sub- Jects, 8o that thinklng tu a suvaze negro tribe, in Central Afrien, 8 o small, Hight business com- pared with this mental getlon In the centres of modern eolightoument. In wll the world's streuts there moves a multitude to-doy shich passes in mental sctlon rupldly from themes fn eeology to themes fn sstrovomy, und from the stars to polltles, and from polities to religion, and from religlon tou flnoart or an industry. “Flins it lind conio to pass that tho human mind 13 averttowing full of tdeas, transient or perni- nonte The more gifted umind 1s by uature or becomes by vultire, the more witl 1t overifow with tiese pleeures or shudows of things. Tt 13 wabl that u vonunon, itliterato laborer, busy caclt day with his v of the earth for Lrait, OF for ure, oF (UF Pk, uses o vacsbulary of ouly thees o four bundrad vords, whils » kg bral ke Millog, or Bliaiapenre, or atone, whi need ten thousand to exprees all wotluis of his intellect, Oplilons, there- 1 rruw In quantity us the jutellees adyances n powe ‘Plius you will all readily admlt that man fa a thinking animu,—-a resticas and #tr activity, sd phat from b (deas by ully forth }iko sparks frum o fire. 1 tnat a befug of character und action. will demand o unfolding or fllustration. You have ahways known that this warld contalns the walnt and the muracrer, the cruel Nero and the tender John, Thas, man stands hefors gy oy almply wi getlve brain passig over b the unl- Verse fn thouzht, but alse @ soul capable of Inm:unshu.iulllgll or « low character, He may e w hero llke & Bt Pagl, or o plrats ke u Capt. Kitd, This guestion of chiracter i3 ong which dwar(s the othier guestlon of simple thought, Whether u man il make use of ten thoy sl words ke a Webster, or u Fitg, or whether he requires, Hiew peaaat, only o few hundred In whivh to express his slnple wants umd nottony, 1+ a vmall fuquiry com- pared Wit he gustiun whether b {3 truthe ul and kind, und onest and relfglous. We all love Puul snd Virginds of the story, because wu eare nothiiz about the stnplivity of thele words and the dawruw range of thei thoughts, but are perlectly satistiel (u the b Ly thelr churacters. * Paul and Virgiul ) the writer, *had netther clocks aor almanacs, nelthier buoks of chronology, history, nor Enuumphy. ‘They Kuew the hour of the day y the shadow of the trevs, the scasons by the time of the flower and the frult.” Such ‘wers these children of nature, not Iull of thouiht aud opiuton fike a Bscon and u Do Stael, bue pusataaud of i spiritual nuture which nal Jorget all beshles, Tuicle perdonal beauty o ehadoved thelr fnfonustion, Standlsg it o o world of ideas sod of character, the Chirlatlan veligion, in the verson of ite Founder, Chirlat, ¢hosu to make character thio liret conefderution, and thought, of oplnien, the second or a sceonda y quality or elément. Hence, Christ Hunself niade uo dlsplay of leara- M ing, says little about the/vast multitude af themes” which aoclety sets up for daily debate., A Montaigna or n Buckle or n Draper il ralse more inquirfes in a _volume thin Christ would have ruggested had o Hved and loved on earth. for a thowseand years, 1{Is gentus I8 seen i the text: % Whosotver shall do the will of My Father in Ileaven, the sameis My father and lster and mother.” Thus Chrisi turns away from the endices ocean of thought or opinfon and founda [lis empire wupon what the hoart does or wishes to do. In His kingdom, that Tanl and Virglol telling soring by the budsand autumn by the fruits, are as Zlorlous as the witty Montalgne in his rescarch, or as Buckla in his wide grasp of science and history. This brings us to our thepie—Opinion and Religion. Jt1a not at all probable that by hetlet Christ Implied nny such aceeptanee or espousal of artl. cles as is demanded of religlon'sts tn modern but by faith Il meant the aMectionate accentanve of Giou, or of Himself as the repre- acntative of flml’ or Incarmation of God. The “ Coine unto Ma ™ excludes the common custom of voming unto o set of fdeas which include a certain opinfon as to the creatlon of the world, the fate of Lot's wife, anit the nature of Satan, and, fudeed, A rango v, o, h_mieht appall o Froneh encyclopeilst, funt * Comlng unto Mc ' 13 80 vast an cloment I the Christian rell_Lilon that (o all fulr minds It ehould atand forth as a religion of devotion to God or Christ, rather thau as a rellelon of many and unbend- {ngr detalls. I Christ knew anything aboot Uls own_errand, He found It to lle lnrg(; y In doing the will of the Father in heaven. Tho human shlo of salvation would be found n claborating from the ritos of the Church and from Christ 1itimsel! a purer aou] and moro righicousaction. Stmple, therefore, i1t its opinion must that early Christlanity have been, fag neither its Founder nor His Disciples are to bo seen as pouring into It any great varloty of proposition for daily be- lief, ~ 1t was awful in its grasp of duty, Tiow, then, tame our modern rel\lfllun! to be 8o much g inatter of detlnition, aundtiscriminn- tlon, and doctrine? For It Is amazing what defi- nition nnd claboration of doctrino is demanded, even among churclies and persons already 1ib- 1 In thought and spirit. Men who have searcely character enough to tceure credit nt atore or bauk are_na busy as plilosoplicrs with the questions, What was Christ's naturel what meant David fn the Pealmi what meant lsatah n the l‘mrhc:yl what mcant John in tho Revelatlon? what was the exact nature of the stonement! what ts the meaning of Trinity? The solicitude about tha fmport of theTen Commandmenta {3 not lialf a0 futense or wide- sprend In our strange generation. No age has surpagaed our own (n critical study of cven tind’s Word; no age has made nioregt of the Bible as a hand-book for travelers, a vide-mectm of all tnen for cars and steamers, and for appeal to contirm in publle religious meetings the vita- tlons by the preacher, and yet fow ages have made Icsa use of the great laws ol God as re- corded In the Book. Familinrity with the Biblo bas falr to outrank the practico of that will of God which nlone makes man the brothes of the divine Lord, Man, fndeced, fa an anlmal that thinks; when ho becomes an anlmal thut cts rightly, what a world we shall have! Of this \nfiulun for distinctions and meanings among holy words and prophecles there comes to the surlice one adequate cause, that of slmplo thinkingactivity. Al along the temperato zane there is More Intellectual 1lfo than haa over be- fore Leen cxl)urloucml. nnd this current {8 earry- inzulong In it rapld depths tho student of sclence, the student of medicine, tho student of polltics, the Atudent of nrl, and lonce among thiose the student of relizion. Tho Bible I falthiully turned over because all bouks are undergolug constant study in our reckless country. ;Not only do our gentlemen and tadics all carry 4 Bagster Bible, bub they nearly all study French and ransack bistory, Men who have made thelr fortunes by fraud are traveling over tuo Holy Land, for {deus are Interesting bo tho heartever go Inelgnificant, In a time ot universal actlvity each mind will run toward an obfect of {uterest, and wiile the devotces of acienco aro re-reading and re-Interpreting tha poges of thele chietatho lovers of religlon will pour thelr lelsura hours upon thelr moro sacred wwritlngs, Tho Bible study of tu-lay muy there- fore fidleato mental activity, rather than higher virtue, for man, as o secker of the hidden or the curfous, 18 not always mun ns 8 6eoker of & better chargeter. Would that study and honor wero ono! ‘I'hat the study of revela- tlon were Inseparablo from virhie, lor what u multitudd of noble men, women, and chil- aren, indeed, wo should long sinco have he- comel Lassing by the tendency of the times toward fnuiry, more than toward virtue, Jet us nsk why tie Christin Chuech, which started from Chrlst umier o flag of character, comoes to us with u flag of feas,—n banner ull writton over with opinioust On tho Romsn Catholle fag there must be o thousand declsions and diserim- inatlons, Upon thy Protestant banner there must be a hundred or mors of very valusble or cssontial ideus. A vandldate for the English Church must slgn g wertain number of articles, and wo ull through the circle of the denomina- tlons, ~This exultation of oplolon inust certainly have heen claborated for Chris- tlanity ~ whit f was passing through these centuries where all thought luy In stupor except Churen thought, snd where urlnlun In these mutters was ulso the test of fldelity to the Government. 'The Chuzch governed the world, and heneo 1€ o man of powerful_ intellcet set up an {des, that fdes must olther bu Incorporated into thd Church deas or tust b suppressed, for an fdenpendent fdea fmplivd o rival ‘govern- went. The carly eenturles wera Iurld with the fires o martyrdom, becausy, the Sate and Church bejng one, s an with wnew thazht wus_damzorous becaune o crowd of followers wight sprivg up which might scizo the remv of Empire. Therelore the pulitieo Chureh was con- stantly defining what Views o mun might hold antt Wit otes hie must not pronudgate, check frocdoms of thowusht and its natural results, tho State Clireh was busy luylig down boundarlea where the waves of ‘the Intellect shontl come and pause. [t el 1ts havds full-ol business ywhen it canaged to wurb sl men a1 Dante, and Savonaroln, snd Gallle, and Culvin, amd Luther, Ab the appearnnce ol any uge with o new thought, the Church ussembled its mag- nates aud redefined tho proper and inspired ereed, Furthermore, when centurles stidied nothing but religlon, they must produce many puerile duginas, and those, too, the Churcls li- corporated lnto ftaell, so thut, by the thne Lhe Homan catabiishment bl reachid the sixteenth century, it had beeome heavily buden with tdvas, from tho mature of thue Virgin Mury tothe smatlent detald about heaven or hell, °Luther tatine to urrest this compleation of the’ vase, il o Qid eheck 1ty but tho spiri of dogna hisd hecotne powerful {0 the practica of so wany Imadreds of years, snd by left the Church of Christ still wedded to o concutenation of opin- lunx, All along this pathway of thlnkers snd fubricators thers appearcd umien to enter a rotest, [n the secund century Justin Mar- yr omplamed that an fmpuortancy was b g attachied to baplsm not to be foand in the Word, In the fourth century came Manes to plead for u mors apiritualiz ho was flayed alive, aml then o new decreo was udded to tho formulas, In the eixth century catis quite a powerful sect with a persbstent ate tenpt to lead religlon tack toward ul.uuuy. Maosheln, the Chiireh historlsu, sa; *They were for restoring the 1(fu and munners of the -didst reveal to e Clreh to Apostolle shnplicity ; they maintained that by the multiphiestion of esternat rites snd unies i the doninant Chaireh tho trug life peliggion bad declined;;” but these fro aud sword und extlo sflenced, und thon the trlumph- ant Church bubllshed some new aud additional aplufons. Thus step by stap soclety hios beet Ted nlonz untfl it hos come to that condition when what the mind holds as an tiea seems of wore valils than what {Ldoes In getion, “Phero ure & thowsand men watching ideas for one practichg virtue, Tarning away from such a hlstorical method and religlon, and soctuty witl tell us at ones that 1t Iy 0 charavter that muast scttle thu question ot worth, Tho ‘Tun Comman luelits are alined at conduct, unid not ut soy detall of beliot, "Thiera tho will'of the Father in Reaven beging Lo ap- peary sl that which thus eent forth a loat in tho Decalogue bore ita full frult i the Sermon on the Mouut. Out of the old shell of rhchte- otsness the real lfe Was eyolved [n the New Testament, Hut in neither the old or new cods of morals was oplnton of uny moment. The works of man, the workings of the heart in the hour of duty, wers the chiet object of reward and punishinent. Toward this Christ turncd 10 teactings and cloquence, o dig not in- vestizaty the entire belicf ot @ inun, but fle Toft 10 ain of the heart eovered np. 1o sked 1n3an o Touk well to s purity, und honesty, and kinduess, aud then buving traveled oyer these laws of action, ile summed up the address by dectaring that thuss obeybis ihis will of Gud were s brother, er sistor, or inuthey, Thus the fellowship of man was not to be sought fu harmony of faith, but n a resemblance ol slebteousnuss, For the juust part thy Church has exactly ro- versed this order of things. At Jast States which had once mado the upla- fons of the mind an evil to b punisned o 4 vir- e to be pratsed, found that sa-h s wethod e vulved the uscessity ot porpetual slaghter of Catholiv or Proteatants, — Always sows noble wan must be lyiug in prison or vgonlzing at the stake, and gencrully thy noblest thought the wnst actively. Tho people graw weary of such 1ors of sodl ‘3. und wredted from Kloges and ! Poves the modern mumrulxx and republle fu | whitzh no man can by punistied for opinion sake, 1 What the State has leurned the Chuichalso will duubtiess learn, that I 3 moditled sunse it 13 depds oy turals which make u‘x wiwust L gating Cuurch fdea, It §s generally conceded that had not man sintied e would have necded wo Savior frow the eky, and hencu thay Savior mwust Liave come, uot to bring Inforination, or @ cuaty of interpretations reaching from the garden of Kden to the last ccclestastleal conventlon of carth. but Ho came to lead tho lieart up_to an obedience of the will of the Father, Chrlsv's ermnd {s oxhanated, not fn human opiniuns, but in human character, The Yaws or will of the Father must fill the Chsistlan soul, and then other kdeas may come and go a8 they may, The will of the Father as to morulity, as to prayer, s to worship, na to love for Clirlat, must per- meata the hieart, and then tho great world of opiufons may roll around like a sea rough or minooth around n atrong ship, the ship not caring for the rippla or tho calm. A salvation based upon opinlons would he most unjust na coming from tod, and most In- gongruoita as inoving toward mau. The opin- fous of Origon in the thirl ventury were wholly different from thora of Justin Martyr of the sccond, but fn tho will of tho Failer they found o brotherhood. The poctic and even fanciful fnterpretations of the former, and the inctaphysical method of the other, were fn themacives discordant, but they, ns Christian souls, wero full of harmony; and In thelr torturea for opinlgn-sake the Church found its own disgraco and Injury, while evidently the tortured vues went in pitrity o thelr Gud, To supposo that God gava the glIt of ealvation to Origen and withbeld it from Justin, or that 1le withheld {t from both and gave Iis merey to those who, from s different polnt of bellef, came and {artitred these 1o, 1a to make of Goi o governor unfit to ruls anything, much less o moral untverse. Calvin eould not hold the doctrines which mnug had entertalned. The fdea of the Christian Bablash now leld by the moat of orthodox elergy Calvin could not ind jn Gud's word. Tho opinfon that the Sabbmth ended with the Jewlsh epoch forced iis way into his intellect, and remalned fmmovable thare. e taught that * the observancs of Bunday was not an indispensable duty of the Clrlstian Clurch; that the Babbathwas a carnal Jewlsh onlinance which the Lord bad blotted out.' ‘Thus In Calvin hitmself we find proof that man, ns o thinking creature, 18 full of wanderingas that bollef vurles like the form of tha clouds on tho sky, and Js s transient as cloudy, and that lienco character and not. opinlon muat bo ‘the eternal basts of religlon. No more calin and patient student and thinker than Calvin has perhaps ever graced the flehl of theological study; but yet to hlm opinions came us they cotlid not come to hisneighbor at haud or fn the next generatlon. In TLauther the uncertainty of human judg. ment agaln revealed itaell, for he did not liesi- tuto to relect several buoks of the Biblo as bo- {nz uninspired and worthiess. His remarks over them were bold and even larsh, - Such eclec- ticixm and repudiation, instead of ruining his sonl, geeims {n no way to have affected his piety or personal duvotion”to Christ: and yet in our age to_ ke poetry or Togend out of the firat chiapter of Cenesis Is thought hy many an uu- pardonnble uet of mplety, But Luther rejected ‘hole houks and epistics freely, and then came tohis urave one of the nost ntehso and con- elstont anid powerfitl Clirlstfans that lave appear- ed In history, What did ail his peculiar opli- fons welgh agalnat & heart which dying conld use these worda: ** Oh, my. enly Fathier, Thou Iy Son desus Chrinty and have proached ilims I have confessed 1lim, love Him, and I worship 1Tl ns iy dearcst Savlor andg Redeemer'f Had Luther been o little minlster in the unineteenth century ho would have heen tried and ontlawed by any orthadlox chureh, but coming upon the horizon inimmenso power, aml beimg a creator of the Church rather than the slave ot one, o shiows the world that fulth In ideas is of littlo valug compared with falthfuluess to tha moral Jaws-of ol and 1Hs San, What wo have scen in Justin Martyr and Orizen and Calvin and Luther you will liud all along the pathway of the Churcly, that fnto the hinman mind all forms of thought pour thon- seives, Just as from the soll of earth there apring ‘up o hundred thousand specles of flowers, und henca the brotherhuod of mankind, us mon or as Christians, must ba sought for whore Clirist linds {t—{u the one-coler of those tninds which do the will of the heavenly Father. Hero stand our Dbrothers and sisiers nnd mothera, Io this spirit of plety aud purity and eharlty mn{ Lo found the only chaln that will bind many hearts into one, ‘These quali- tles gave Chirist to all the world, and they will give the people of the world to oach othor, This s the mystic urele in which Calvin and Luther, the mighty Proumt- auts, Joln hands with Hossuet and Masstlion, the tiighty Catholfea: this the uspeet of relig- Jon which wil make o Heaven possivle for thia many seets, and which can gather the milllons of earth all under the banner of one Bavior and one Gad, ‘i3 theme, this norning, I8 valuable, not be- cauya [t forglees you and mo for clicrlshing dif- Terent oplnlons, But beeanso it solemnly warns agalnst u religion of ldeas rather than one of Inner character. It not unl( forgives mon for holding » variety of viowa shout (icnesla or tho Apocalypse amldall Detweon, hut it even re- bukea men for attempting to find i Intellectual nguiey wiat ey should ho sevking In virtiio and good works.” We clergy recelve letters con- nlnnll( rogurding the meanings of words, and purubilos, and dark ssyings, ull going to show that the nge 18 far more determined to be curl- ous_than to be virtuous and spirltual A Dible well worn fn that part which contains the Bermon on tha Mount is thy 100k which our ugo most needs, Thero the will of the Father, thoro laws which suve souls or dimn them o fn perfeet platunoss. No ‘eom- mentary ¢an throw light upon them, no” selency or learning can take thelr fight away. Tlhoy are o purt of the universe, only more linperlstinble than the stare. Christ dléd for i beciuse man would not rospect theso lawa or the Kiug- dom, Huaving died for slnuers, Ho now fnvites them to comu into theas Jaws of the Father, Do not mistake the invitation, Do not £o to the curlositieas of sacred Nierature or to the syntax of antiquity; donot o to the groups of “opin- fons raked up lv( any chureh from the nshes of tho pust, but cdimplng over thess Wils of il culty, camo with ull the saints to the finat shn- rlu utlon of thy heart with God, und say with Luther, * 1 have preached Him and have con- Tewsod THim, und huve worshiped sud foved 1l —— . I BLISS. MEMORIAL BERVICES AT TUR FIIST CONOHEGA- TIONAL CHUKCH, Tna services nt the First Congrezational Chureh, corner of Ann and Washington streets, lust evening, wero of o speclal eharacter, and ntonded as o tribute of respect for the niemory of Unflp P Bilss and his wife, who were hoth members of this congregation. The suditorium, gallerles, ofsles, pulplt, and cholr were pucked, and at least o thousund people were obliged to o away on aceount of the lack of standing- room, ‘The church was draped, and on the pal- pit-platform were several stands covered with tralling plants, aud surrounded by fluwers ar- ranged fn differont deslgns,—harps, crosses, cte,—tha contrlbutions of friemls, The exurcises woro tshered [n by a voluntary on the organ, and then a hyinn was suug by the cholr, the congregation Joining, Tho Rev. Mr. Goodwin read part of tne first chapter of Jubn, thu first of Acts, the seventh of Acts, and the fourth of Thessalos nfans,—the poptions of the Seripture read at the fungral services in Rowe, Pa. “Iis was followed by the singing, by Mr. James Metiranahai, of “Are thy windows open toward Jerusalem,” Bllsa, Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr, Pattan, he saylniz thoy cawe not to exalt nen troinsh hiy memury, bitt to exalt Go's graee, which shono 50 conspienoisly I Mr Blisi; und to_speaks of the Chiristhan victues which were wrought in bing, and the Christion work wrought throuey hit that they might by encouraged to walk w his footsteps us by wallied bn those of the Mas. ter, mud to reman lalthul i the day of lubor before the nizbit cometh I whidh no nan can work, a4 compuaition of Mr. DR GOODWIN then sald they had gatuered not in any formal vay, but rathee in the most familar wind aifec- tlonate way, ns in the family ciretu, to pay atrin- ute of Crespest to o th medlory o him who wis s0 dear to thein—that the lescons of the life ghat Gnd hael called to the higher services oM the ity nlzhithe written upoi thelr bearts and wWrousht out (o thefe Hyes, sl bear outo g lurger und weamler harvest the work that was ao preclous T thelr shziity and upan witleh rested so slgnbils cantly the blessing of 1ot Tl hpd telt thy sorrow ad i houschold grict, Hardly wver bis experience il thie death of ons cane g0 ey to i, Tho brother's Lo had baone Very sweetly lotertwined with s ey uls -{m pathy Dk becons Y preclois Lo Iils Nearts und his work was vary closely inter- woven with ny theught and work, T musnorial tribute which jt was fu his heart to l)uy wad i tribute to a brother most dearly be- oved, o would not awell upon hia history. His was o life of humnbleness, and 1ol on thio farm, us » cook b the Tiuher regions, and a3 o scho hor, nlnistered unto by the sweot uud constant love of his wife, wha taught him to pley op the orzan, and ualiied hiin for thy lurze work to which tho Lord was calllng hloy from the begiuning, A musleal convention led Lo an ucquiiatance h Mr Ruot wud bls cou to Chicaio. ben I was leader of the choir, s witerwanls Superintendent of thy Sanday-achool. 1iv ubodu with them four years, ant noentere ) Iuto the greater work with Whittle, | e was one of the wost boueful aud sunuy Christians he eyer know, 1l No was sliost un un- clouded day, and 4f yhadows cama they did not Ly, ¢ bLad by trialsy wod disap- un(nlm(‘nll. and discipline In varied ways— new what it was to he missnprehended, to have scltlsh and mean motives ttributed to blm, when hle molivas wera atalnless,—kncw what {t wasto e tatked about as ainging for pay and sclt-glorilication, e was [ast-anchor- ed'in the promises of God, nnd knew that He would keew him in perfect peace. The light of Hia face aud the lml-lml on of 111s promnises ale ways slone through him, aud he would hereafter by better appreciated ns the Singing Pligrin than ever, Another feature of his char- acter was - his unsclilshuess, Ile had a charity fund (how much the speaker dld not know) hut it was known to have yielled 81,000 insixmonths, He often hauded his pocks book to the church visitor amd sald, * ‘what you want for the poor.” Ile was alwavs mmlytnxmumungum needy in attles und cal- lars, and always willing "t lend his mag. nificent volce to drive away sorrow. ~Ha did nat bulleve hie ever ad nnean or scifish thought, He was pre-eminently the Unspel singer of the age—inc mlln;: the wrlting of the hymns, In the ranre of Engllsh hymnology no writer ol Take could be found who used 60 maw of tho stmple words of God In his rongs, Chatles Wesley himeell dld not put salvation by the blowd of Jesus Christ more sweetlvy nore potently, more divinely into song than he. His songs were Insplrcd by Gou— born on bls knees, and consecrated with tears, aud prayers, aud a ifo of faith, e (the speak- er) would rather have wrltten a slnzie line of * Haltelujah, *tis donel” than to have had the fortunes of Vanderbilt and Astor or ths crowns thut had been worn by all carthly Kings. In cunclusfon, he appealed to those present to con- seerte themselves to the cause of Chrlst, wud to seek to Jead men to the knowledgo of the teuth, MAJ, WIITTLE then spoke at some length, and the tears of sorrow In his cyes, when a'lmlmg t6 his de- ceased nssoviate, made many of his auditors cry. He ealdd he was glad to mect those who knew knew Mr, and Mre. Bifss, 1lls abscence had pre- vented him from belug present at any metnoriul services, und lie had had o opportnilty to pre- sent such a tribute ns it was [n hly heart to pre. sent, When he returned he found a tun dred letters from all over the country— from E))ams where they hiad labored in the Ie read several of them, and the writers expressed thelr deep sense of the loss the Church has sustalned, To_those who knew him (lll.hxmlv.‘lf the memory of him would be ol one who wus Indeed the cliosen Tustrument of the Lord, Ife wus nu humble man, with o very modest idea of any power n himsell, It was not him, but the grace of God through him, that did tho work, The Clurch and the world had lost ono used of God asn great blessing. He himself ‘had lost compnnlon In Iabor. Mz, Moody, when in Scot- Taud, desired them to o out'into the gospel work. 1t wasa great deml for hin |Biiss) to glve up his business aud his home. After pray- er they started. At Waukegan they izave then- selves to Gud, and e shuwed them by such un- mistakable angwers to thelr prayers that it was 1018 will that they should go forward. That was April 4, 18745 and they had been tozether sincs In gouspel meetings, in prisgns, with the poor, by the bedaide of the sick And the d T could not tell them how he loved Bllss, how grloved for him, 08 ho looked forward to the futuro o1 tho work to which both lad Been Jolntly called, anid In which they wereso intl- mately vonnected, He knew 1t was the will of the Muster, und ho would go forward relylng for strength from on hizh, “Therg was no pride about hlm, 1 was always wondering that his songs shoull le used—wonderiug. at the goods ness of God to bim, going along like a little child with his hands’ full of glits, won derlog wh{ they wers bustowed upon him, He. was sensitlve to the feelings of others, and did not take thedeclded position In some matters whiclt, perhaps, would have buen better, simply Decause of thissensitlveness, 1o wus thepurest man the speaker know, (irace made him- whut hewas, Hislife ripencd the last three months as heeame noarer to God ; anid bls wife's lifo ntso. They bl all been together stnce O.to- ber, praylng amd sinzing and planning to go to Englond, "Untll the last sl months Mr Tilisa hid hardly enough fncome to buy wlat was needed for'his famlly, and mother and two slsters. Muny o thne ho ‘Knew not where the Inuiey was Lo come from Lo ;mf-m. bills. When ut lnst there was a promise of ncome from the Aule of hymmns, he encriiieed 1, and trustees wera apnotnted to recelve the revente; without anoment's hesitation he gave up 813,000 {uur and went on with his work, louking to the Lord for help, This was' grace, lovo ot aouls, consecratlon to Jesus Christ, ‘Three things were chictly inhia heart, na o b 18 the sun fn_mid Heaven, as heing Uospel ot the Son of Gud: the Jesus Chirlst and M erucilled; dosus Chrlst and Mhn risor ny vt Bavior i Heaven; Jesus Christand Him coming agaln in person. Not a day passed but ho thohighit the Lord wmfeht return. All hls hvmus bore testhnony to this truth, Chrlst's return was the thonight ond insplration that thrilled his soul, In concluslon, Mr. Whittls expressed the wish that tho truth anizht como hoine to the Ghrstlans present, and lewd them togive thomselves to Gad as never before, and madoan urgent appeal to tho unconverted to come to Chrlst, -, Mctiranaban then sang onc of the laat hytung which Mr. Bllas wrote,—one Tound la his home at Rome, the chorus of which had not been finlshed, It commonced,— 1 know not whnt's bofora me, dod kindly veiln iy oyos, Aftera brief prayee by Maj, Whittle, the sorv- fres wers slosed by slnging * ‘Till ho came,' and the benedivtion,” An inquirv-mecting followed, which was at- temded by nuny. ANNUAT HOME TALK. HENMON BY THE BEV. E. I\ POWHLL, ‘Tho Itev. E. I% Powell gave hls * Annual Tlome Talk ™ ta the congregation of the Third Unitarian Chiurch, corner ot Laflin and Movrou streots, yesterday mornlng. At the outset the reverend gentleman spoko of tho grent progress thu Chureh had mado in Uberal theology. Twenly years ago the Unl- turlans hud only recogulzed the fellowship of n few, but they had come to realize that thers must be o fellowsbip of ull Christfuns, Thisled to the doctrine of evsential union of 2ll good- hapers the world over. 8o far as they could find ont what Jesus and [lis disciples really pronut- gated, It way evident that they fmpressed on Tutmunity tho necessity of bulng upward-tookers. 'The platform of Jiberal-thinkers now Iv: Aunity of humanity, a comuon source of fnspiration, the equitablolove of God for all people fnall timew, anid salvation proportionally to victory over aln und mastery over self. But thelrs was easentiully a creed onwheels, und ready tosdapt {tself to the hmproved knowledgo of the world, IHu bl generally avolited tlnanclul matters and bushieas, O Tute, however, pastors had been compelled ta selve somo attention to this phitse of chureh adminlstration; they had to ent their sarmonts to the eloth, which, by tho wiy, was au exeellent maxim for familles and Indiviiluals s well as churches, Whils the congreggation hal been generous, e had et the alf l\'u{ in niaki tremes meet, the cul c to this church money way not hid ullii' object, 1t would be folly for auy an to suy ho had no rezurd for money, but wonhl rather ace vheeriu faces around him, and witness sturdy efforts in malntainiug the Ch aind fus_principles, than a of #1000 ¥ Mo dul not seck the rd Unituriun Chureh, but havine comoe to 1t lie wanted so to Lahor i It g4 to leave gosd and permanent re- sults, 1L wus not hils cuaton to preach Lo please certaln classes of his constitueney, He rrdwm\l 13 with the wtinost freedom § willlng to bedrawn through s behimba Yokohama steanier rather an be bampered atl hindered du the expros. slo of his honest ophitons. For the coming year there had heen arranged aplan tor weellig ull current expenses, and teaving a littlo uver. “The debl was {usl & part of the great Chicago debt, und anust take Nty clmnvez, he sipposed. A regard he woulil suoner have the close tantion of § fe an the meang wnve ol 10,00 1 persons. They sul fered somewhiat trom the lack of o publicatlon tu serve us 4 bond of unlon and disseminate in- formation_concerning the methods of the Clnireh, - They bad slowly drawn uway fron the uhb staudards” of Unitarisnlsm, which was also the cune with something (ke three-fourths of the tern chur nd - one-third ol Eastera. agubeer promised e e il the plaes ol the publwatiin allulel to, but preparations were partly completed for o church paper of thelr owa, which would zive a schedule o each Suanday’s work, and as el goud and frest thouit us could be secured. Tosteal ot dymg this year, the church was showing syurtoms of reiewed youth. Gener- oits zun Uil an Ustety coursgge would acean oot thitngs, aud e loosel o then to nt busls, The dlenty dts freedum trau Ll Was tarked, but, I drawing reourageinent from this, they must never for- thatn perfect congrewation of salnts was iapuisible. Tie best dour: that he kuew oy & cutrch was, ** Firgt pluck the bean ouy of thine own eye, and thou wilt ses clearly tu re- amove tho wote from that of by brother.” Chureh attendaneg dld not demaud {uthnate soclal relatfons, but Jt requlred the wost mivuts courtesy und forbearance in rclerence to dlyersity of gpivion in minor watters, Quo great virtyo wbleh should by practiced fn thy soclal cirele was pover toae of the v to talk over peopla’s faults; such & habit crg atad a bad atmosphere {n the home, which 1o acted on the church, They should watch ovey ane another for good and not for evil, Tn cone cluding, Mr. Powell urged them to work heartily m‘ tho future for the luve of God, and the layg of man. MISCELLANEOU® FORT WATNE, IND. Bpectal Dixplach to The. Thibune. Fort Warse, Ind., Jan, 14.—A large numbee of members were admitted to-day Into the dif. ferent churches, the results of the recent lahory of Necdham and Btabbins' meetings. At tly First Preabyterfan Chureh thirly persons pro. feased thefr faith and were reecived Into com. munfon. At the Baptist Chuerch, Palmcer, the evangelist. opened a brlef sesson, large crowds beinie prescnt. There is o' great rellgiong awakening in this clll' nimd the revival effurty will be continued in dlfferent churches with ln creased vigor, PANTORAL, - Hpectal Dispatch to The Tridune. Broosinaron, 1il., Jan, 14.—Tha Rev, L, N, Morriron, Rector of 8t Matthew's Epfsvopa) Churehy to-morrow evening. will present to p meeting of the Veatry hls.resignation. Ty step he s comuclied to taks on aceount of falk ing health, He lins Leen Rector for some eight years, - CONTROVERSIAL, It s understood that ‘to-morrow the Rev, 1. A. Havage,n noted Unitarfan preachor of New York, now_temporarily sojourniog here, will challengo Elder A, J. Tlubbs, pastor of the Christlan Chwrch of Bloomington, to a jolng discussion on points of religlon. v ——— A CIGAR, It Belentific Disncetlor Sctentigic American. Ta the world in general o cigar (s merely o tightly-rolled packet having brittle fragments of dry leaves within, and n smooth silky leat for its outer wrappor, Whon It Is burnt, and tho pleasantly-finvored emoke Inhaled, habitual smokers claim for It o roothing luxurs that quiets tho Irritable, nervous organism, re. heves weariness, ond entces repose, Sclence, scouting so superflefal o description, examines first the smoke, second the leaf, third the ash, In the smoke fs discovered walcrin vaporous state, 5ot (freo carbon), carbonie acl] and earbonic oxid ¢, and &' vaporous substance condensed {nto olly nicotine. Theae are the pen- cral divistons which Vohl and Eulenberg have still furthier split up; and_ in o doing have found acetle, formlc, butyric, valerie, and proplonle aclds,” priasde ackd, creosote and earbolic acld, amnonla, rulphurreted bydrogen, pyridine, viridine, pleo- 1ine, lutiding, eollodine, parvollne, corlding, and rubedene. Theso lnst are n series of ofly buses helonging to the homolozues of anfline, first discoverail in conl tar, Applying chemlcnl tests to the leaves other chomists have found nicotia, tobaeco, eamphor or nicotlunino (about which not much {8 kuown), n bitter extractive matter, g, chlorophyll, malata of 1lme, sundry allu- ninolds, malleneld,woody fibre, and varfoua salt«, ‘Tho feathery white asti, which In its cohesion amd whitencss Is fudieative of the good elgar, ylelda potash, soda, magnesta, Hine, phosphort: ficid, sulphurfe acld, sitlea, and chlorine, Our triend has kindly left us a good eigar; bad it been a pdur nnd cheap one, the Ingredicnts wo shold, extract would be fearful and wondgrful to coutemplate, Ilera Is the st from an En- glish Parllamentary report on adyltera. tlous in tobacco: Sugar, alum, flour or Mmeal, rhubarb-leayes, saltpeter, fullor's carth, starch, malt-commings, chromato of lend, pent moss, molasses, burdock: leaves, common sult, endlvo loaves, lamphlack, gum, red dye, o blnck dyo composed uf vegetable red, iron and licorico, scraps of newapaper, clunnmon stick, cabbage Jeaves and straw brown paper. l(clumlug now to the smoke, or ratber ity ingredients, Dr. B. W, Richardson, in biy “Whisenses "of Modorn Life," conslders th cffect of thy same on the body at considerabie Iength, basing his conclusions on' actual in- vestlgation, 1le tells us that woter, of course, s harmlces: free cachon nets mechualenlly ns w Irritant, and tends ta discolor thy sceretlons and the teeth. Ammonia bites the tongue, ex- ereisea n solvent influenco on the blood, excites the eallvary glands, and thus causes a deslre tc drink whilo smoking, The tendency of carbonie acid is to praduce aleepiness, headache, aud lassl tude. When a clgar s snioled badiy, that |4] when the combustion of the totueeo i3 slow and fncomplete, carbonle oxide §s produced {n small ruantitics, and aa an active polsoning nzent, re sulting in frregular motion of the heurt, Vit Ing, convulslons ofthe muscles, and drowslness, ‘The nicotine tends to eause tremor, palpitation of the heart, aud paralyals. ‘The volatila cmpy- reumatle substance prodices o scnso of oppress elon and taluts tho breath and surroundings of the smoker with the well-known * stale tobacea rmoke ™ smell. The bitter extrazt cauges that sharp nauseous taste peeullar to o relighted elgzar or old pipe. iy trylng the effect of tobacco-smoka on lower atifmals, we can obtuin' an fdea of {ts by flugnce on ourselves, Smull {nsects aro sty fled rl:j!h]ly, hut regover in fresh air, Colide blooded animals sucetmb slowly to the smolic, birds rupldly, Sote unlinals, such us the coaty canent folaceo with mpunity; bt none capa the elleets of tho fiunes,” Persons suffer most from tobaceo while learning to smoke, Dr. Richardson says that “the spas- modgle selzures are sometimes (er- rible, especlull n hoys. There 13 a sensation - of {mmln\'nb denth, the heart nearly cases to beat, and sharn palia _ shoot througl the chest, Examination of Inferlor anjmafs under such conditiona showe that * the braln 1s palo sl empty of blood, the stomuch reddencd in round spoty, so rafsed aud plle-like that they resemble patches of Utrechit velvet.” “I'hu blood is preteroaturally fluld, the lunes are ag pale of those of a dead ‘calf, nud the heurt Is feebly trembling; such Is the primary action of onw's flrst cigar, Alter a thne, howevor, the body becomes ac- customed to the futlucnce of the poison; and with tho eseeption of constant functional dis- tiehaneos (owlng to the excretory organs, notu- bly tha kidneys, befngcompolled to do work not casential to their nluhum) 1o dlstressing restlts ure feit, There ara numervus fnstances whees Lo ovil elfects uro surcely appreciuble, the physieal nud nervous constitution of -~ the suioker being capablo of resisting the Influence, In many cusos coplous sallvation. ate tends smoking, and In this circamstones the upponcits of tubacco have found o strong argument, Stil, either to expectorate or ok ta do su §8 n el v In the latter case the reaylt 13 to awallow 1 saliva charged with poisondus matter; fa the mer, the galiva nevded to lm ddigeation 13 1ost, and, an it contulng salts of lime In solution, the eifect 1 to produce Large formations of tartar on the teeth, “Rmoker's sore throat ! s a speclul {reitable stato of the mucous membrane fuduced by clgar smokdng, which soon disappears when thichubit (s broken ol e —t—— A Plagful Letter fram Washington. Mr. C. B, Allen, of Brimfield, Mass.,, has found In a_copy of the London Mayasine for Jannary, 1822, 1 letter to (len, Washington, in- viting Dr, Cocirun, Medival Director-tenerm) of the atmy, to dinner. It a tnteresting us show- {nyz whiat a Jabor it was for Washington to be humorous, try ho ever so well, 11is playfulness was exceedingzly dignined, hut thon it Was (A fulness, and wo don’t donbt that Dr. Cocliran had & goold disuer. The italics in tho letter uro s (n thejLondon Wugazine : WET Pornr, 14, 1770.—Dean Docrom: k have usked Mra. Cociran and Mre, Livingston to ding With mo {o-morrow, big ought I not to ap- prive thom uf thelr farey 'da 4 have deceptlon eren Ukere unaylnation ls concerned, 1 will, It 1a needieds o premmiae that my iablu (s Jargo ‘enough 16 1ol the fadied—of this they had acular nroof > yesterday, To eay how 1t s ‘usually covered, 14 rather more essentlal; and thie eball Le the purs part of my letter. wlnce ny arrival at this happ lr)l we havo had an s, sonotiines o shoulder of bicon, to grace the teall of the tablo— plece of roast beo! adorn the foot, und & small dish of grcens or beans (al- most fmperceptinle) ducurates the centro. Whea the couk bay u tind jo cut & dgute (and thls, I bre- s, he will aticmpt 1o do {o-morrow), wo bate two beclstewk bles, or dishes of ‘Crabs 18 additin, one ou each slde of thy centre- dioh, dividiug tho wpace, and _reducing the distines between dish and dish, (o about sl which, withuat them, would by nulrl{ twelve feol wpart.’ OF lute. ho his bad the surprfsing luck 10 WiGrer that apples will make pless aud it is 13t the vioience of hls etfarte, we 1 ony of npples, fustead of haviog both of 11 the Jadies ean put up with suc! »xlx;:‘l; eef. tutnmeat, und submit to partake of It on unce tin, but puw fron (4ot becuina s0 by tAs labour of acouring), L uhsll be Lappy to wes thm, | au, dear sir, your wosy obodlunt soevant, Grouur WASIINGTON, To Dr. Joux Cocunay, Republican Jule In Florlda, Joaka s 4 (1) Unfon. Gov. David 3. Walker turned over to fov Reed, in 1563, the’ sy of 3150 in the State Yreasury. o Gov. Stearns tums over to Uovt Drew about $145,000 lu vash u the Treunr{. Gov. Walker turned over to Gov, Reed a publle credit on State bonds equal to 15 or 20 ceuts ou dullar. GOV, Btearns turns vyer Lo Gove State credit on bonds gb 93 In 1863, cuuld be bought fur 40 cypts, Now 1t 18 rarcly less than 5). In 1583 there was uob cnough money o the Staty Tumu{ to buy candles for sehool-bouses.. . Nuw {hero a1 county, Sips b B, e ] 0 on deposl 9. @ ‘Lreast to tho crediy of tlio school-fuads K v 7_—___—_._———-—_—— d H e atin et A